Dear Ellen, There are a million reasons why you should want to evacuate the womb and join our family as quickly as possible, but for now I’ll just stick with the best one: You are going to have an amazing older brother. Not only is he cutting edge and fun, but he’s going to love you so much. So, if you won’t do it for me, will you at least decide to come for him? Love, Mom
The other day Cooper and I sat down to eat lunch with just the two of us. (We are lucky to live super close to Noel’s work so he generally joins us for lunch.) I had made fish sticks and tater tots because they were easy and they sounded good. Cooper took a bite out of a fish stick, laid it back down and refused to eat any more. All he wanted to do was dip his fingers in the…
My mom emailed me some photos from the last time she visited. I love being able to take advantage of her talents so often.
When Cooper was born I didn’t post much to this here blog about his birth story. For the most part that was intentional. I tend to be very private in some ways and very open in other ways (don’t ask how I decide to categorize things, there isn’t much rhyme or reason) and at the time I felt weird about spouting off my birth story on the internet. I didn’t mind telling the story. It wasn’t that I felt sharing…
I don’t profess to know anything about parenting. I basically go with the flow, do what feels right, and rely on Google for everything else. As we prepare for Ellen’s arrival, we’re doing our best to prep Cooper. We’ve read books about new babies and my parents brought him a little redheaded baby doll (Wishful thinking? I hope not.). Still, I think the whole thing is going to be kind of a shock, I mean he holds the baby up…
As Cooper likes to say, he likes to “go, go!” He’s hard to keep up with no matter what, but with me putting so much energy into growing a baby I think he gets away with more stuff than he normally would. Here are some of his recent shenanigans. They say imitation is the highest form of flattery, well here is Cooper snuggled under a blanket reading the Ensign. He also really likes to draw in the magazines which I…
Cooper is doing an excellent job of making us want to pull our hair out one minute and having us collapse in laughter the next. Luckily, the funny moments almost always overshadow the frustrations. He loves shoes and he isn’t too particular about whose they are or what they look like. (Although Noel’s shoes often frustrate him since they are a bit difficult for him to maneuver.) He’s getting to be a decent helper. He’ll help put away his toys…
Cooper hit the 18 month mark last week. When we took him to nursery, his eyes got really big when he saw all the toys and he looked at us as if to say, “How come you’ve never taken me here before? This is way better than sitting through two hours of those boring meetings you guys go to.” After we gave him the okay to play, he settled right in and didn’t notice when we left or even seem…
Saturday night Cooper wore his Max suit and made mischief of one kind and another. When he escaped from our church building not once, but twice and was hightailing it to the road, we called him “WILD THING!” But, we didn’t send him to bed without any dinner. Trying to get him to walk around the parking lot and accept candy from the kind people we go to church with was equivalent to doing the wild rumpus – he just…
It’s crazy to me how much Cooper is growing. I feel like he learns 10 new things everyday, which puts me to shame since I’m lucky to remember anything I’ve learned in the past 10 months 😉 He’s got a few words under his belt (tree, shoes, this, dog, and of course mom and dad) and understands a lot more than that. If I ask him to go get his shoes he does so excitedly and if we ask him…